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This KCard presents a
useful technique for argumentation in a congruent and seemly simple way.
However, it is only simple in appearance, because this technique requires
extensive preparation and thinking but can reveal very effective compared to
other techniques which can seem simpler to prepare. Fortunately, once
prepared though it is quite straight forwards to use. A reason for everything
The main idea is to find some underlying concepts
which will serve your argumentation on the subject. These underlying concepts
are what we call meta arguments. From a limited number of meta arguments it
is possible to argument on many aspects of a subject thus providing
congruence and easy real time adaptation when objections occur. Examples in politics
A perfect illustration of this is politics: Most
politicians have an overall idea of how things should be and this provides
them a small number of meta arguments and they can then pass any issue
through these meta arguments to hold and defend congruent positions on them
which will serve their overall goal. Take for example communists (or similar extreme leftwing
movements), one of their most important meta
argument is 'redistribute the richness held unjustly by the outrageously rich
to the workers who create it'. From this single idea they claim to solve many
the problems: unemployment, security, immigration, ...
(consult some communists papers to see the details). The same goes for nationalists (or similar extreme
rightwing movements) whose meta argument is mostly 'stop immigration and
promote protectionism'. They use this to solve everything,
again their papers can be consulted for details on how they do so. Quality is the difficulty...
These are just two examples but most political
stances are similar, a few meta arguments (sometimes just one or two) which
are derived quite simply to address all issues. Whatever is asked to them,
they think 'how can my meta arguments solve this' and they develop in real
time thus finding a solution and being congruent. Of course, for this to work your meta arguments must
be strong: they must be simple for people to understand, they must seem
logical, general to address issues on the subject, ... This of course is the big difficulty. You must find
good meta arguments to hold your stance on your subject, whatever it is:
running a country, selling a product, managing a team, convincing your familly, ... |
Ideas to develop
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